Future Plans for Patagonia!

Way too much of what is made these days ends up in the trash at the end of its useful life. At Patagonia, we're working to change that.

In 2005 we launched our Common Threads Garment Recycling Program, through which customers could return their worn out Capilene® Performance Baselayers to us for recycling. We've since been able to expand the list of recyclable garments to include worn out Patagonia® fleece, Polartec® fleece clothing (from any maker), Patagonia cotton T-shirts, and now some additional polyester and nylon 6 products that come with a Common Threads tag.

Through Common Threads we can transform your unusable garments into new clothing, which gets us closer to a long-standing company goal of taking full responsibility for every product we make.

How to Recycle
Recycling old Patagonia garments is easy. Simply wash them first and use one of the following collection methods:

1. Mail them to the Patagonia Service Center at

Patagonia Service Center
ATTN: Common Threads Recycling Program
8550 White Fir Street
Reno, NV 89523-8939

2. Drop them off at the Patagonia Retail Store nearest you or at one of our Performance Baselayer Dealers – ideally, while you're running other errands, to reduce environmental impact.

Please note: Recycling your old clothes is voluntary. If you choose to recycle, you'll gain the satisfaction of knowing that your old polyester garments will not end up in a landfill or an incinerator, and that future Patagonia products will require significantly less virgin polyester (less oil) than products from seasons past.

Making new clothes from old clothes may be the right thing to do; it's also the thing that must be done. To learn more about cradle-to-cradle product development and other innovative strategies for making lives better and giving the planet a rest, we highly recommend the new, expanded edition of Lester Brown's Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble.

Purchase Plan B 2.0 from Earth Policy Institute

These are the plans for the future is to keep recycling and finding out what is going to help our environment out. Patagonia is 100% about the care of their customers and the use of how things are made is all by being fiber friendly. Patagonia is looking for more ways to find better use in the materials around us and experimenting on the harm that some fibers have for us.